King-bolt.



Nq. 771 379. PATENTED OUT. 4, 1904.

H. E. MARTIN.

KING BOLT.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.15, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES: ZNVENTOR L H W Patented October 4, 1904.

PATENT ()FFICE.

HORACE E. MARTIN, OF ATHENS, GEORGIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 771,379, dated October 4:, 1904.

Application filed February 15, 1904. Serial No. 193,686. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,HoRAoE E. MARTIN,a citizen of the United States, residing at Athens, in the county of Clarke and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in King-Bolts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to king-bolts; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully describedand claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front'view of the king-bolt and the parts connected with it. Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on the line 00 0a in Fig. 1.

A is a vehicle-axle, and B is an axle-cap secured to the said axle by clip-bolts b or in any other approved manner.

0 is the sand-bolster, and 0 represents the hounds between the sand-bolster and the axlecap.

D is the rocking bolster.

E and E are king-bolt sockets secured, respectively, to the rocking bolster and to the sand-bolster. Each socket has a bolster-plate e, and the holes for the king-bolt F are arranged to one side, so that the bolsters are not perforated to receive the king-bolt. The sockets are secured to their bolsters by bolts 9, which pass vertically through the bolsterplates and bolsters, and loop bolts or clips 9', which straddle the middle part of the sockets and pass through holes in the side portions of their front plates and in the bolsters horizontally.

H is a king-bolt socket which is secured to the axle-cap B by means of a loop bolt or clip h, which straddles the socket and which passes horizontally through holes in the axle-cap. The upper edge of the socket H is provided with a lip h, and I is the end portion of a coupling-pole which rests on the said lip between the sand-bolster and axle-cap. The king-bolt F passes vertically through all three sockets and through a hole in the said coupling-pole.

What I claim is 1'. The combination, with a sand-bolster, and a rocking bolster, of king-bolt sockets arranged to one side of the said bolsters and provided with holes in the side portions of their front plates,loop-bolts which straddle the middle parts of the said sockets and which pass through the said holes and secure the said sockets to the said bolsters, and a king-bolt passing through the said sockets to one side of the said bolsters.

2. The combination, with an axle, an axlecap, a sand-bolster, and hounds between the saidaXle-cap and sand-bolster, of a king-bolt Isocket secured to one side of the said axle-cap and provided with a projectinglip at its top, a

coupling-pole which rests on the said lip, a

HORACE E. MARTIN.

Witnesses:

M. B. SAYE, B. C. TURNER. 

